Posted on 10/09/2021 4:20:58 PM PDT by T Ruth
The Washington Post reports that Mike Pence [is] gearing up for a possible run at the presidency in 2024. According to the Post, Pence’s friends and advisers say he’s likely to run for president, especially if Donald Trump doesn’t.
Accordingly, Pence is “taking all the traditional steps to position himself for a. . .presidential bid.” He’s “hopscotching the country giving six-figure speeches, sitting down for interviews with friendly conservative media outlets, and hosting fundraisers for Republican causes.”
One potential problem for Pence is that he refused, in his Senate role, to do Trump’s bidding when it came to blocking Joe Biden from becoming president. Some of Trump’s most ardent supporters consider Pence a turncoat because of that refusal.
Pence calls January 6 “a dark day at the Capitol” and says his focus is “entirely on the future.” This stands is contrast to Trump, who in his various interviews seems focused largely on the past.
In my view, Pence’s actions on January 6 count in his favor.
The Post reports that Pence wants “credit for what he sees as the good of the Trump administration.” This raises the question of whether Pence influenced that administration and, if so, in what ways.
There’s no doubt that Pence influenced the administration. Trump entered office with very little knowledge of the Republican Party. Not all that long before, he had been a Democrat.
Pence, a Republican insider, was there to help guide Trump when it came to selecting key personnel like White House chief of staff and the Cabinet. Pence wasn’t responsible for all of these selections — Trump took advice from other sources, too. But Pence was probably the most influential, and it was thanks in part to him that Trump imported the GOP establishment into his administration.
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(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
However, what this Mirengoff guy writes makes me like Pence less now than before I read the article.
Mike “Benedict Arnold” Pence doesn’t have a chance.
It's Trump or no one.
Maybe Pence would be better off retiring from politics and living his gay lifestyle?
Don’t blame me; Dave Chapelle elevated the whispers.
Pence?
Methinks he’s just a junior RINOmney.
Please, oh please, Republicans, nominate a leader. Trump might have had issues, but he knew how to lead. We don’t need a civilian Willie Millie as our nominee.
Mierengoff is a Never Trumper.
I finally stopped reading Powerline because of his columns. My BP wouldn’t take it. He is as illogical and biased as all his ilk.
I WILL NOT vote for Pence.
NO MORE RINOs.
F’im.
ML/NJ
If the GOP-E scum at Powerline like him, it should be an automatic NO.
Pence is done, he had a chance to show strength and save our Republic from a coup and he was not up to the task. Our elections are rigged, he knows it and by failing to call it out he is no longer fit for office. If he were to get the nomination, he’d lose, because no one believes he will fight for the American people.
Mike will be the Jeb of 2024.
Paul Mirengoff was supposed to convince us to vote for Pence. Instead, he made us despise Pence even more.
” he’s likely to run for president, especially if Donald Trump doesn’t.”
then I’ll pray that PDJT does run because we all know the deep state will finance this traitorous bastard especially ditching their new pet Biden who wont run..
The GOP establishment underestimates the depth of the repudiation of Pence by the base and the revulsion we feel for him.
I’ll give deSantis a shot because he’s doing really well for our cause. I know deep down he wont win against Trump but he deserves a chance.
VP
I was thinking State..
One potential problem for Pence is that he refused, in his Senate role, to uphold the United States Constitution — which he took an oath to do — and to fight to preserve and protect the plain words set forth in Article II.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3920144/posts
NO...
Is he running as a Democrat?
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